How to buy plane tickets correctly. When is the best time to buy air tickets to save money? Keep an eye on charter flights - they may be cheaper

Mega-instructions on how to find and buy plane tickets for the cheapest price! 15 tricks that will help you significantly reduce the price of air tickets.

• How to learn how to search and book tickets correctly?
• How to break the system and force airlines to turn their clever tricks against themselves?
• How to deal a crushing blow to the airline empire, discover the Power and use it for the benefit of free travel?

The answers are in this article!

I love to travel, fly often and always try to do it cheaply, or better yet for free. Over ten years of active travel and six years of working on the website, I have accumulated a lot of experience and knowledge. In this review, I will tell you everything I know about finding the cheapest plane tickets.

The article is long, so be patient. But it will definitely change your life, significantly increasing the time you spend traveling.

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1. Use search engines 100%

Where to look for cheap plane tickets? On sites that compare prices of different airlines and agencies. These services are called search engines. In 10-15 seconds they will find you the best price and the most convenient flight.

The two most popular and convenient search engines are Aviasales and Skyscanner. If you use them when searching for cheap air tickets, this is approximately 80-90% success. However, to get the full benefit from search engines, you need to use their capabilities 100% - and not everyone does this: even travelers who are well familiar with them are not aware of a number of excellent functions of these aggregators. Next, I will talk about all the cool features of search engines.

If you are looking for tickets only on airline websites or, God forbid, go to the aunties at the ticket office, then don’t expect to see cheap tickets.

Before you buy plane tickets, check the price on both search engines for greater reliability - this will increase your chances of finding the cheapest plane tickets. Usually they find the same options, but sometimes there is a difference in price - 2-5%.

It is useful to have a cheap flight search engine always at hand. I advise you to install the mobile application on your smartphone. Aviasales has convenient applications for both Android (download) and iPhone (download). In 2019, more than half of users search and buy air tickets through mobile applications.

Let's remember! Cheap flight ticket search engines are the easiest and most reliable way to find tickets at the lowest price.

Let's learn to be cunning and fly cheap! Photo: © jrpboo / flickr.com.

2. Fly to where it’s cheaper

You will save: ≈ 20-70%.

: for the destination you need and specific dates, prices are always outrageous. I've encountered this a thousand times already. The real law of meanness! But you can cheat the system - give up specific plans and fly on vacation to where it’s cheaper. If you like this approach, then you will save a lot on tickets.

Advanced search is the coolest feature of the Skyscanner search engine. I start many of my trips with it - I study all the cheapest tickets from the desired country/city and decide where to fly.

Do this:

1. In the window "Where" indicate the entire country or city from which it is convenient for you to fly. Plus, you can check the “Add nearby airports” checkbox.
2. In the window "Where" write “Everywhere” or leave the field empty - now the search engine will look for the cheapest tickets to all countries of the world.
3. In the fields departure and return dates specify "All month" or "All year".

Aviasales also has a similar tool: low price calendar >>

Or use the low-price map on Aviasales and Skyscanner - the essence is the same, only all low-cost flights are displayed on the world map. There is something in this that inspires!

Let's remember! Be flexible with your travel destination and timing and you'll save a lot.

Here's an example of how to fill out the search form on Skyscanner:

Search form for cheap air tickets to all directions at once.
List of cheap tickets from Moscow (round trip).
Photo: Eva Tushenkina © fishki.net.

3. Watch for price drops

You will save: ≈ 10-40%.

Ticket prices fluctuate like the blood pressure of a hypertensive patient - they change every day, and sometimes within an hour. You need to start hunting early and catch a ticket when the price drops as much as possible.

There is no need to check price changes daily or hourly; search engines can do this. Subscribe to Aviasales news by e-mail or their bots on social networks. Set the direction and time of departure, set the size of the desired discount or the maximum price - the robot will send you a letter as soon as the ticket price drops to the desired level. Convenient and effective!

Follow the rule: as soon as there is a chance to buy cheap tickets, you need to take advantage of it. Don't hesitate - buy.

Remember the periods when plane tickets can be bought cheapest:

1. one year before the planned trip;
2. 2-3 months before departure (especially for low-cost airlines);
3. a few days before departure (for charters and with large airlines for flights at unpopular times of the year).

The rule is not ironclad - it is rather a trend.

Relying on the last option is always risky, so it is suitable only for the freest: those who are ready to fly anywhere, anytime, or not fly anywhere at all, unless they are lucky.

Let's remember! Start monitoring prices 2-3 months, or better yet, six months or even a year before your trip. Sign up for price drop alerts to get the cheapest ticket to your destination.

I believe in cheap flights and budget travel! This is me on the island of Penang in Malaysia, my first winter in Asia.

4. Buy last-minute tours for tickets

You will save: ≈ 20-40%.

Traveling on your own is more interesting, but last-minute tours promise us good savings. Often a trip to the most popular resorts (Sochi, Crimea, Turkey, Thailand, Greece, Dominican Republic and others) can be bought very cheaply - a full tour package sometimes costs less than air tickets. In this case, the flight will always be direct, and the bonus will be accommodation, transfer and insurance. It's worth using!

Feel free to buy the cheapest tour to the most run-down hotel solely for the sake of a round trip flight. Nobody forces you to live in a Zadripan hotel - book what you like yourself and relax there.

Look for last-minute tours for pennies on services and - they compare prices for tours among all the most popular tour operators.

Let's remember! Check last minute tours to the resort you need. If the tour costs less than tickets, buy it.

Such prices are not uncommon, especially in the off-season.

5. Create a complex route

You will save: ≈ 30-70%.

: flying abroad from Russia is not cheap, especially if you live in the regions (like me). For each flight you have to shell out a tidy sum.

But you can fly between different cities and countries abroad very cheaply. That's why I always try to cover several countries in one trip. Visiting 2-5 countries in one trip is much cheaper than flying from Russia to one country after another each time. This way I save tens and even hundreds of thousands of rubles a year on flights.

My experience. For example, on a trip to Asia in the spring of 2019, we spent 160 thousand rubles on air tickets for two. A huge amount, at first glance. But let's do the math. We flew from Perm, returned to it, visited 5 countries: Georgia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Indonesia, South Korea. In total, we only got 16,000 rubles per person for each country. It's very, very cheap! If we flew to each of these countries separately 5 times, we would spend 2-3 times more on tickets.

So create challenging routes and save!

This function is available on the search engines Aviasales and Skyscanner. It allows you to create routes with three or more flight segments and fork routes when the cities of arrival and subsequent departure are different (non-closed flights). Also, thanks to this function, you can purchase tickets with a stopover (connection longer than a day).

• Example of a simple route: Moscow - Barcelona - Moscow.
• Example of a complex route: Moscow - Barcelona, ​​Barcelona - Paris, Paris - Moscow.
• Fork example (open-jaw): 1) Moscow - Barcelona, ​​Madrid - Moscow; or 2) Moscow - Barcelona, ​​Barcelona - St. Petersburg.

My experience. I use this technique on almost every trip. At times he allows you to visit a place for free. For example, having bought tickets Moscow - Bangkok with a stopover for 4 days in the UAE, I...

Such manipulations are especially beneficial when traveling in Europe and Asia. To fly from one country to another, you can buy very cheap air tickets - from $10. Of course, you won’t always find a ticket for $10, but for $30-100 you can fly anywhere.

How to easily create a complex route. Let's look at the example of Europe.

1. We go to Skyscanner, set flights from Moscow in “Everywhere” for the desired month in one direction. Usually for 2000-4000₽ there are tickets to Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Slovakia. Let's say we are especially interested in Hungary and Italy.
2. Now let's open two new search windows on Skyscanner: in one we indicate the country of departure - Hungary, in the other - Italy. In the “Where” field we again write “Everywhere”. Now we see a list of places where there are cheap plane tickets from these countries. The list of destinations will be huge: all of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East - choose what you want. The main thing is that the last country you fly to has inexpensive air tickets home.
3. Now all you have to do is select interesting countries and cities and connect flights by dates.

An impressive example of a "fork". My friend flew to me in Asia, having bought very cheap tickets with a complex route: Moscow - Manila, Hong Kong - Minsk. I paid only 10 thousand rubles. It's very cheap for a flight over such distances. Of course, he still needed to buy tickets for domestic flights around Asia, but it was still inexpensive for such an interesting route.

Let's remember! Fly to several countries in one trip, buying the cheapest air tickets between them.

Knockin 'on Heaven. We are standing with a friend on the shore of the Pacific Ocean.

6. Extra segment

You will save: ≈ 10-20%.

By adding an extra final segment to your itinerary, you can sometimes get cheaper flights. For example, the Etihad airline several times offered tickets “Moscow - Asia - Moscow - Yekaterinburg” for 14-20 thousand rubles. It is not necessary to fly to Yekaterinburg on the way back - the flight is via Moscow, and you can get off there. Savings of about 3-5 thousand rubles. Here's the news about it. This rarely happens.

One day we were especially lucky with an extra segment. For a reason unknown to science, tickets Moscow - Penang (via Doha and Kuala Lumpur) were much cheaper than similar ones just to K-L. And we just needed to go to Penang Island. We took tickets to another part of the world for only 8,700 rubles. Beauty!

Durian is one of the main reasons why I fly to Asia every year. I fly from Russia to some place (Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Colombo), and then fly inexpensively from country to country across Asia on low-cost airlines.

7. Forget about airline promotions

Ticket promotions are often a scam.

Believing that they will help you save money is self-deception.

Reason #1. Most promotions are a stupid marketing ploy by the airline to remind you of itself and force you to buy air tickets as soon as possible. The price decreases slightly, the dates with cheap tickets are inappropriate and there are few of them, the destinations are uninteresting, and so on. Airlines are not going to be your sponsors, they only want PR and sales growth. Finding a good deal for your dates and interests is almost impossible.

Reason #2(most important). Groups on social networks about airline promotions bombard their subscribers with a barrage of news. This flow of information clogs the brain, confuses and burdens the person with a sense of missed opportunities. You see dozens, hundreds, thousands of shares, but the problem is that somehow they are always unsuitable. And you start to feel like you're missing out. Pain and disappointment comes. Each of us is already bombarded with an avalanche of information every day on social networks, instant messengers, and news sites. To maintain peace of mind, we must filter this flow.

Reason #3. Yes, sometimes you can buy a cheap air ticket at a promotion, but get ready - it will entail inconvenience and expenses. A night flight, a distant airport that you still need to get to, a tedious transfer, inconvenient departure and arrival dates that cut off part of your vacation, and so on. Like? I don't.

I fly a lot, but I don’t buy promotional tickets. At first I followed them every day, and then gave up, because none of them ever suited me. I no longer waste time on news about promotions, but find inexpensive tickets to the right place myself.

Let's remember! Don't subscribe to airline stock news - it's a misleading prospect. It’s better to subscribe to notifications about price changes for the routes you need, look at the price calendar or the list of countries where you can fly inexpensively from your city. You will save time and nerves, and this is more valuable than anything else.

8. Fly during low season

You will save: ≈ 50%.

Tickets are most expensive in the summer, New Year and May. Don't fly during this time if you want to save money.

You can buy cheap tickets to any country during the period when the demand for flights is at its lowest. For example, fly to Europe in winter or off-season, and to Thailand in summer. In addition to low flight prices, you'll receive discounts on accommodation, excursions and entertainment - all prices drop during the low season. The third bonus is that there are few tourists.

Read about the weather in the destination country in the desired month, and everything will be cool.

Let's remember! Fly on vacation during the low season, or at least during the high season.

My trip to the Maldives - sailing in the Indian Ocean. I flew to the Maldives from Sri Lanka to save on air tickets. I specifically chose the very end of the high season for my vacation: the weather was perfect and there were few people.

9. Fly cheap charters

You will save: ≈ 40-80%.

Charter flights are flights ordered by a tour operator at the height of the tourist season to popular destinations. Package tourists fly on charters, but an independent traveler can also buy a ticket for some of them at a profit.

Charters have situations when there are several days left before departure, but the plane is not fully loaded. In this case, the airline can throw a portion of very cheap air tickets onto the market. Most often these are one-way tickets. Such options can appear at the height of the season, but especially often at the end of the season. For example, every September you can buy cheap tickets to Bulgaria, because half-empty planes fly there to pick up vacationers. Tickets cost 1000-2000₽. The savings are especially great when you fly to Asia or the Dominican Republic - tickets cost 10-12 thousand rubles. True, you will need to work some magic on your return ticket: it’s easy to find an inexpensive option from Europe, but more difficult from distant countries.

Let's remember! Fly on holiday during the high season with charters.

Cheap charter to Bulgaria at the end of the season. Only 1300 rubles!
Cheap charter to the Dominican Republic at the end of the season. 12,000 rubles for a 12-hour flight is almost free.
Cheap charter to Thailand at the end of the season. 3900 rubles! You can’t always fly to Sochi for that kind of money.

(Photo © Rennett Stowe / flickr.com)

10. Fly from a nearby city

You will save: ≈ 20-50%.

Always check the cost of tickets departing from neighboring cities. Residents of St. Petersburg can save money by flying from Moscow, Helsinki, and the Baltic countries. For Perm residents it is often cheaper to fly from Yekaterinburg. Siberians - from Novosibirsk or Irkutsk.

Muscovites shouldn't yawn either. Yes, in 9 out of 10 cases, air tickets from capital airports are the cheapest, but there are exceptions. Before booking, check ticket prices from Pulkovo.

Get to neighboring cities by train, bus or car.

Let's remember! Check ticket prices from nearby cities.

(photo © cheelah / flickr.com)

11. Try different cities of arrival

You will save: ≈ 20-50%.

Tickets to the city you need can cost significantly more than to neighboring ones. Therefore, it is worth looking at the prices for flights to and from them.

• It is cheaper to fly to Bratislava than to Vienna. There are only 80 km between both capitals, which can be easily covered by bus for a few euros. We do this often.
• Pobeda flies to Karlovy Vary, from which it is easy to get to Prague.
• European low-cost airlines and Pobeda fly to Bergamo airport. You can almost always buy tickets to Bergamo cheaper than to Milan or Venice.
• And so on...

Let's remember! Check tickets not only to the city you need, but also to neighboring ones.

(photo © sewyerown / flickr.com)

12. Low-cost airlines: good or evil?

You will save: ≈ 10-50%.

Low-cost airlines are low-cost airlines; their tickets can cost as little as 10 €. To reduce the cost of their flights, low-cost airlines refuse additional services: food on board, baggage allowance, free check-in at the airport and others. All this can be purchased additionally, but the flight will no longer be so cheap.

There is only one low-cost airline in Russia - Pobeda, a subsidiary of Aeroflot. In free countries there is no monopoly, and there are many low-cost airlines - there is competition between them, which means the lowest possible prices and the best quality. But we're not complaining! Previously, we didn’t have budget airlines at all, but now we have Pobeda, and it helps a lot. Plus, other airlines have introduced super-economy fares in recent years and become semi-low-cost airlines.

All the scary stories about low-cost airlines deceiving people, mocking them and almost forcing them to fly while standing are complete nonsense. Every year, two thirds of my flights are with low-cost airlines. There was never a problem or scam. Just read the carrier's rules and you won't get into an unpleasant situation.

My experience. I have flown with Pobeda, Wizz Air, Ryanair, Air Asia and other state airlines many times. My cheapest tickets cost $10-20 for 1-2 hour flights.

You can read about what low-cost airlines are in, and specifically about low-cost carriers in Europe - in.

How to fly low-cost airlines correctly:

1. Read the airline rules carefully!
2. Take a minimum of things and don't pay for luggage.
3. Check your hand luggage for compliance with the permitted dimensions - see them on the airline's website.
4. If you cannot do without luggage, add it to your order when purchasing tickets - then it will cost 500-2000 rubles more. When traveling with a group, take one piece of luggage for everyone.
5. Buy tickets 2-4 months before departure - prices are usually lowest at this time.
6. Find out the check-in rules for your flight. If there is a fee at the airport, register yourself on the carrier’s website and print out your boarding pass.
7. When purchasing tickets from low-cost airlines, a 1-5% commission for payment by card is almost always added to the final price. There is nothing you can do about it, just accept it as a fact.

Let's remember! Feel free to buy cheap air tickets from low-cost airlines, read their rules and enjoy impressive savings.

A typical dialogue between a passenger and a Pobeda employee.

13. Fly with a group

You will save: ≈ 5-20%.

Some airlines are ready to give discounts to passengers if they fly with a group and book tickets for several people at once. I know such examples:

1. Low-cost airline EasyJet usually gives a discount of 7-10 euros to each passenger when tickets are booked for two or more people.
2. Wizz Air has a loyalty program - Wizz Discount Club. Membership costs €30 for two, €60 for up to 6 people. It gives you the right to purchase any tickets for at least €10 cheaper during the year and other benefits. Membership pays for itself in 1-2 flights, and then there are savings.

In addition, when you fly with a group on a low-cost airline, you can save a lot on luggage - check one bag for 2-3 people.

Let's remember! Fly with a group to get a discount and save on luggage.

(photo © demandaj / flickr.com)

14. Tricky deceptive zigzag

You will save: ≈ 10-20%.

Airlines love to make money on direct flights, because many are willing to overpay for convenience and time savings. Let's use this to our advantage and force the airlines to sell us the cheapest tickets. All you need to do is pretend. Pretend that we want to fly to places other than where we really want to go.

Let's say we need to go to Riga. The best price is 7341 rubles (direct airBaltic flight).

Expensive ticket to Riga for 7300 rubles.

But do you remember that passengers have to pay more for the pleasure of flying on a direct flight? The solution to this problem is simple: knowing that Riga is the hub (base airport) of airBaltic, and also that tickets for its flights from Riga to Tallinn are usually very inexpensive, we will simply check the cost of air tickets from Moscow to Tallinn. Voila, they are asking only 6099 rubles for them! Flight on the same day and at the same time. The plane flies with a connection in Riga - we fly there, pick up our luggage and forget about Tallinn. Congratulations, we saved 17% from the cost of a ticket for a direct flight to the city we need!

Cheaper ticket to Tallinn via Riga for 6100 rubles.

How to look for such cheap flights? To do this you need to be a little in the know:

• know which airlines fly to your desired city;
• whether its airport is their main one;
• what destinations do these airlines fly from the city you need at minimum fares (in order to correctly insert the destination city into the ticket that we will buy).

Use this knowledge and logic to design such detours.

Attention:

1. Check your luggage not to the final destination, but to the intermediate one. You can come up with any argument: you are carrying a gift that you want to pass on along the way, there is something you need in your bag, etc. Or better yet, fly light, without luggage.
2. If you miss any segment of the flight, remember that after this the ticket will be cancelled. Therefore, if you bought a round-trip plane ticket and missed a segment on the flight there, then you will not fly back using this ticket. For example, you have an air ticket “Moscow - Riga - Tallinn - Riga - Moscow”: by refusing to fly from Riga to Tallinn, you deprive yourself of the opportunity to fly later from Riga to Moscow. Therefore, for such purposes, you need to buy a ticket there separately, and a ticket back separately.

Let's remember! Buy cheap flights connecting in your desired city and get off halfway.

(Photo © benjaminlansky / flickr.com)

(Photo © caribb / flickr.com)

15. Earn miles from all airlines at once

You will save: up to 100%.

I have been a client of Tinkoff Bank for more than three years. I believe that it offers the best conditions for travelers. With his debit cards I withdraw cash all over the world without commission, and with my credit card I get 10% cashback on all hotel bookings, 3% on air tickets and free annual medical insurance. Cashback is miles that can be used to pay for air tickets on any airline.

My personal experience. Thanks to the miles accumulated on the card, in 2017-2019 I flew for free to Istanbul, Phuket, the Maldives, Bali, and South Korea. I have also been receiving a free insurance policy for the third year now - also a good saving of money and time for those who often fly abroad.

This bank is criticized only by financially illiterate people who did not bother to read the rules and study the tariffs. They withdraw cash from a credit card, exceed the limits, delay payments, connect unnecessary services, and it’s their bank’s fault. Well, what can we take from fools?

Now the bank has a promotion - year of free service. So you can use this card for a year, and then decide whether you need it or not.

Do not buy insurance that the airline forces on you when booking - a waste of money.

Often, instead of a hotel, it is cheaper and more comfortable to rent a house or apartment - many interesting options from hosts can be found on the popular Airbnb service. This is definitely beneficial if you are traveling with your family or company.

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Knowing what time of day or day of the week is most profitable to purchase air tickets, you can significantly save on their price.

Thanks to this article, you will learn the best time, resources and the right life hacks to buy air tickets.

The best time to buy an airline ticket depends on many factors: airline, destination, season, and even specific dates.

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When to buy air tickets?

Almost all airlines have tickets available for purchase 330 days before departure.

Most travelers are inclined to the practical conclusion that It is worth purchasing air tickets 2 months before the departure date or 54 days. Air tickets for the summer to popular tourist destinations, such as Simferopol, Sochi, Mineralnye Vody, etc., should be purchased 2.5 - 4 months before the departure date.

What time to buy plane tickets?

Based on the reviews and experiences of numerous travelers, there is an assumption that the most profitable time to purchase air tickets is Wednesday, 1 am (in the time zone where the airline is located). This is the so-called hour X.

Should you buy plane tickets in advance?

Sometimes readers ask me: “ Should you buy plane tickets six months in advance?“How much time before departure you should buy an air ticket depends on the direction of the flight and the airline.

Almost all low-cost airlines, such as AirBaltic, Air Berlin, UIA, Wizz Air, etc. offer the best prices for flights for six months or more. The prices are really not much lower; by buying in advance, you will save, on average, 15 percent, but there are also discounts of up to 50% on certain dates, possibly at inconvenient times.

Still, if you do not plan to fly on holidays or during the season, then you should purchase air tickets no earlier than 2 months in advance.

If you're not tied to specific travel numbers, you can save big on flights. How?

• Firstly, you can look at the price chart on search engines and select dates where more favorable prices pop up.

You can find out when it will be cheapest to fly to your desired destination on the website skyscanner.ru by selecting “the cheapest month” when searching and thus plan your vacation for this month.

• Secondly, you can take advantage of last minute offers on charter flights, which are sometimes really hot.
• Third, you can catch great deals, discounts and promotions, and erroneous airline fares by subscribing to notifications like 100500miles.ru

Where is the best place to buy plane tickets?

It is profitable to purchase air tickets from Russia on online search engines and aggregators, like: skyscanner.ru; aviasales.ru; bravoavia.ru; worldticketcenter.nl and many others. etc., because they search and display prices for almost all active, popular airlines.

Flight found on a search engine: Moscow – New York for 7,482 rubles.

When flying abroad, profitable air tickets can be purchased on such Internet resources as: worldticketcenter.nl; cheapoair.com ; en.skypicker.com and others. Sometimes, it will be cheaper to purchase air tickets on the websites of the airlines themselves.

For example, discount air tickets (non-refundable air tickets) cannot be found on search engines. They can only be purchased through the airline website.

These can be such tempting prices as those offered by Transaero:

• Moscow – St. Petersburg 650 rub.;
• Moscow – Min. Water 1250 rub.

Popular low-cost airlines

People have always wanted to travel, regardless of the time, political or economic situation. Everyone wants to see how other people live, get acquainted with the traditions and customs of other peoples, and also see the historical sights of a particular country. Even those who have a limited budget try to allocate money for travel. Of course, tourists who have a large amount of money will see much more interesting things than budget travelers, but whether they will have more fun is a very controversial issue.

If you are planning to fly to a particular country, you need to purchase air tickets in advance, approximately in 1-1.5 months, because they sell out very quickly and you may not have time. In addition, tickets purchased in advance are often cheaper. Today, people massively prefer purchasing air tickets through online stores. Is it correct? Let's try to figure it out.

To purchase air tickets via the Internet, you must have a bank card, as well as your passport information and those for whom you are making the purchase. If you buy a child pass, you must have your child's travel document. The advantages of online purchasing include the following:

• quick selection and the ability to immediately book a flight ticket without leaving your apartment or workplace. This is relevant for those who live in regions where it takes several hours to get to the nearest airline agency;
• instant payment using a bank card and other electronic payment systems;
• obtaining all the necessary information about the flight in a matter of seconds;
• You can make a purchase at any time of the day or night;
• the opportunity to study all the information in detail and compare prices on different sites;
• You can immediately buy as many air tickets as you need.

Of course, when purchasing online, there are some disadvantages that the user may encounter:

• There is a possibility of technical problems when registering and purchasing air tickets, as a result of which you can lose a large sum. But, as a rule, this occurs extremely rarely;
• There are sites that sell invalid tickets and it is quite difficult to recognize them. There have often been cases when people made purchases on such sites and lost their money.

In general, everyone decides for themselves whether to buy an airline ticket through an online store or not. Of course, purchasing through such a resource is much more convenient and simpler.

Budget air tickets can always be found using the Aviasales service

Which website is the best to buy air tickets on?

There are many stores on the Internet where you can purchase plane tickets. But what is the best airline ticket site? Let's look at the most reliable sites for buying air tickets.

1. Skyscanner.ru. This is a very convenient and flexible resource where you can purchase air tickets to anywhere in the world. Here you can easily find exactly what interests you. This site provides detailed information about flights, which the user can easily consult.
2. Aviasales.ru. The search engine on this site allows you to find cheap tickets for a particular flight. There is also the opportunity to subscribe to regularly receive updated flight options for the desired days by email.
3. Momondo.ru. Here, in addition to cheap tickets, you can also find the most profitable route. People often buy tickets to France from this store.
4. Avia.yandex.ru. This is a well-known resource where you can also buy airline tickets profitably by comparing dates and prices.
5. Trip.ru. Here you can buy air tickets to any European country. Russians often purchase tickets there thanks to a convenient search engine and relatively low prices.

It is also impossible not to note other sites that sell affordable tickets, and their search system allows you to select exactly those options that are suitable for a particular user. Such well-known Internet platforms are:

Having made a purchase in these stores, you can rest assured that these are trusted resources that sell valid tickets. Today on the World Wide Web you can find many different online stores that offer to purchase airline tickets at attractive prices. It is advisable to give preference exclusively to proven sites that have many positive reviews, otherwise you can fall for scammers and lose quite a large amount.

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On which website can you buy cheap air tickets?

Many people want to save money on air tickets, so they look for places where they can buy them at a low price. People often buy them from airline agencies. Their prices fall mainly in winter, when there are very few holidaymakers and companies want to make money somehow. There are also special days and flights, the cost of which is more affordable for buyers. As a rule, it is cheaper to fly on weekdays than on weekends, and on an evening or night flight.

Those who do not have the opportunity to search for airline agencies offering cheap options often prefer online stores. But how not to make a mistake in your choice and find the best sites for selling air tickets? In this case, you need to be especially careful, since budget plane tickets are often sold by fraudulent websites.

It is quite difficult to recognize them, since they look no different from other resources. That is why you need to purchase goods only from reliable and trusted online stores. To do this, you can ask your friends who often fly abroad; it is quite possible that they bought them via the Internet and know which resources they can trust. As statistics show, the most trusted website for selling budget air tickets is aviasales.ru. On it you can always find the most suitable options both by price and departure date. You can also find great deals on airtickets24 And senturia.ua.

It should be noted that low-cost options are something to keep an eye on. Those who intend to save money on their flights at all costs should keep an eye on sales, as airlines organize them very often. Agencies also often offer air tickets for sale at special rates. If there are few of them left, companies may lower prices in order to attract buyers. It is very convenient to look for cheap options using the “Low Price Calendar” function. With its help you can see the minimum price for a particular day. For those for whom the travel date is not particularly important, it is much easier to look for budget tickets, unlike those who have deadlines.

To summarize, it must be said that when purchasing air tickets via the Internet you need to be especially careful and vigilant. You should not trust little-known resources, since there is no guarantee that you will get exactly what you planned. By knowing what the best sites are for purchasing airline tickets, you are guaranteed to have a successful purchase at a price you can afford. All that remains is to wish you a pleasant stay, because the money saved will be nice to spend on excursions and souvenirs.

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If you still have questions, we suggest you read our instructions for profitable purchases.

How to buy cheap air tickets if you thought about it in advance

Plan your trip in advance. You will have time to study the route, seasonality of the destination and other intricacies of travel. Approach purchasing an air ticket no later than 2-3 months before departure, when tickets first go on sale.

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How to buy a plane ticket cheaply if you have no time at all

Vibers, maps and calendars - we, of course, came up with a good idea. But what if you need to buy a cheap plane ticket right now and don’t have time to hunt for discounts.

There's not much to recommend here, but there are some ideas.

Composite route

For example, a flight Moscow - Riga - Oslo can easily cost less than a direct flight Moscow - Riga. Airlines will never remind you that in the first case you can just get off in Riga.

This option is ideal when you are flying light. Well, or you can ask to check your luggage to the transfer point, arguing that you have important things in your bag that you will need while waiting for the second flight. Attention! In this case, you need to buy a one-way ticket, otherwise if you don’t show up in Riga, the entire return chain will be ruined.

Departure/arrival to a neighboring city

Check departures from neighboring cities that can be reached by ground transport. Thus, most flights from St. Petersburg are an order of magnitude more expensive than similar ones from Moscow. Flying to Girona is cheaper than flying to Barcelona, ​​and the distance between the cities is about 100 km.

Well, check the website where you buy your ticket. Every day, fraudulent sites appear on the Internet selling fake tickets. We do not allow such pages into our search; we have a serious multi-stage face control system. But we didn’t stop there - we are looking for bad guys all over the Internet using the realticket.rf service. And we recommend that you check a suspicious seller before purchasing. Suspicious ones are those who pay via transfer to a Sberbank card or have a very low price.

I wish I knew in advance what days the cheapest flights are and when is the best time to buy an air ticket.

Choosing and buying the cheapest air ticket, trying to figure out a price drop or waiting for a sale can be an exciting but futile activity, because air ticket prices change so quickly and for no apparent reason. You can sit endlessly in front of a computer monitor, waiting until you can make a profitable deal, but it’s a waste of time. Skybooker will try to offer a proven recipe for buying the cheapest air ticket without fail.

Based on an analysis of past purchases of air tickets to various destinations and at different times, we have identified several patterns that may help you purchase an air ticket at the best price:

The cheapest flights fly on Wednesdays.

If we analyze the available statistics on international and domestic flights, it turns out that in most cases, it is cheapest to fly on Wednesday.

Wednesday is one of the three cheapest days of the week, along with Tuesday and Saturday. And the most expensive air tickets are sold on Friday and Sunday.

The cheapest time is the first morning flights. Unfortunately, this almost always means getting up at 4am. The next best time to fly is mid-day, lunchtime.

Best time to buy cheap air tickets

The best chance of finding the cheapest flight is Tuesday at 3 pm. Indeed, it turns out that many sales and promotions on air tickets begin on Tuesday. And the cheapest air tickets go on sale in the afternoon, and the widest selection - sales start at 15:00. Conversely, search results for flights on weekends will show the highest airfare prices.

Buy air tickets for each passenger separately

Airline bookings are often structured so that if multiple tickets are purchased, they will be offered the standard price rather than the lowest available price. Therefore, it is much more profitable to make several separate purchases for each passenger than to buy several air tickets at once, this way you can save a lot of money.

Check airfare prices from discounters

Look separately at the offers of low-cost and discounters that offer the lowest prices. Low-cost airlines have their own baggage rules: without baggage the price is significantly lower.

Choose flexible dates

During the holidays, air ticket prices rise: prices for flights on May and New Year's days are traditionally higher. Look at the price chart; perhaps shifting the dates by a few days will help you save a lot.

Don't buy airline tickets too late or too early.

It is believed that the earlier you buy a plane ticket, the better. But do you know that it may be too early to book a flight? Typically, airlines release the cheapest air tickets for sale 3-4 months before departure for domestic flights and 4-5 months before departure for international flights. And of course, air tickets almost never get cheaper, but only get more expensive as you get closer to the departure date